The popular image of Henry W. Grady is that of a champion of the postbellum South, a region that would forgive the North for defeating it and would mobilize its own many resources for hones business and agricultural competition.Biographies and collections of Grady s essays and speeches that appeared shortly after his death enhanced this image, and for a half-century, Grady was considered the personification of the New South Movement, a movement which promised industrialization for the South, an improved Southern agriculture, and justice and opportunity for black Southerners.As...

Through a painstaking gathering and synthesis of the surviving documents of Georgia social history before the Revolution, many of them fragmentary, Davis re-creates much of the texture and quality of life in that southernmost province. In addition to black slavery, religion, and education, he examines such elementary questions as: what kinds of buildings Georgians lived in, how they solved their transportation problems, the nature of criminal law administration, and the range of occupations and vocations.

Originally published in 1976.

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This book contains 23 chapters. Each chapter recounts an individual's experience that was in some way touched by war. The individuals were personally interviewed by the author. The stories include the experiences of children who were prisoners of war; children who lived through Allied bombings; men who escaped the Nazis by going underground; German POWs and a Japanese slave laborer; two German POWs who, after more than 60 years, returned to their crash site in Europe; a former Hitler Youth member; a combat nurse in Vietnam; a woman British soldier; and various stories of American servicemen...